Definition of timberman in English:
timberman
nounPlural timbermen ˈtɪmbəmanˈtɪmbəmən
1A person who works with timber.
Example sentencesExamples
- Even if the timbermen are purely motivated by the public good, they have to work with state legislators who come to the table with agendas of their own.
- Josephine prepared food for the timbermen who lived in the ‘hollows’ located within the area.
- It sounds like an air-raid siren but in fact it calls the timbermen back off shore leave.
- The timbermen replied that they had legal rights to cut the timber and she had no right to interfere.
2A greyish-brown longhorn beetle with extremely long antennae, occurring in the old pine forests of northern Europe. The wood-boring larvae live chiefly in fallen or felled trees.
Acanthocinus aedilis, family Cerambycidae